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Intel thinks WiMAX is the future, Qualcomm thinks otherwise. Cat Fight? More like WWF fight. We know the game is already decided - by the carriers. Techdirt reminds us that initially Intel backed HomeRF. Enough said! via

Leichtman Research Group: The top cable broadband providers maintain a 6.4 million subscriber advantage over DSL and have a 59% share of the total market versus DSL. Deeply discounted introductory offers again drove a surge in broadband adoption in the first quarter of 2005. In the past six months, nearly five million subscribers have added [...]

“It might take 10 years of litigation to get a clear sense of this. That’s 10 years of chilled innovation,” Larry Lessig tells Business Week Online about the far reaching impact of the MGM vs Grokster ruling. I personally feel that the decision is actually a good thing - it sets a very high standard [...]

A lot of people including James Enck and Mr VoIP Abramson have been writing about MCI’s foray into consumer VoIP. Smart sleuthing by one of Net2Phone customer’s has proved without doubt that indeed Net2Phone is powering the MCI VoIP service. He used his Net2Phone log-in information on the MCI pages, and he sailed through. I [...]

Nextel will trial IPWireless’ UMTS TD-CDMA mobile broadband solution in Washington, DC and several surrounding areas, marking the first time a major US mobile operator has selected the 3G standard to deliver wireless broadband services. Nextel will deploy the technology in its 2.5 GHz spectrum to provide select users with always-on, multi-megabit wireless data connectivity. [...]

The reasons I bring this up - this post by Marc, this article in The New York Times, and yesterday someone showed me a little Xeroxed flyer from an angel investor who was handing it out to entrepreneurs looking for funding at a vertical search conference. Yahoo’s My Web 2.0 by Caterina!